Instead of buying a photo sharing service like Flickr, TwitPic or even yFrog, Twitter is allegedly building one in secret from scratch. According to multiple sources, Twitter is on the verge on announcing it’s own built in Twitpic competitor. Like tomorrow, if things go according to plan (naturally this post might change that). (TechCrunch) Previously [...]
A good friend of FAIR happened to catch this segment on MSNBC.
Turns out it was a false alarm; the noted Peace Prize winner was a guest, talking about another war criminal.
With Twitter officially announcing their $40 million acquisition of TweetDeck today attention quickly turned to whether or not the world’s second largest social network would continue to support Facebook and Foursquare within the application and the answer is yes…at least for now. Jodi Olson at Twitter told ReadWriteWebs Marshall Kirkpatrick: “Short answer is, we’ll continue [...]
Twitter on Monday filed official papers to acquire third-party desktop publishing firm TweetDeck for $40 million in cash and stock. Rumors of the upcoming deal have circulated for weeks as Twitter continues on their path to reign in third-party developers before they can develop an increasing amount of influence over the microblogging site. Twitter has [...]
One doesn’t attract 600 million plus users without picking up some of the worst scum along the way. Fortunately it seems as if Facebook is teaming up with Microsoft in order to catch child predators using the social giant’s website. Facebook is joining Microsoft in the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children’s PhotoDNA program [...]Tweet developers seeking access to direct messages will now be required to ask for access instead of being given the keys to a user’s entire user account. Beginning today, we’re giving you more control over what information you share with third-party applications. Apps that you use to access your direct messages will ask for your [...]
London Investment Firm Derwent Capital Markets is using Twitter to hedge their future bets, quite literally. The company is using their own proprietary systems to examine Tweets before determining where to put investments in their $40.5 million hedge fund. According to the company they are currently analyzing 10% of the 10 million tweets sent daily. [...]
The popular short messaging and status update network, Twitter, has had a meteoric rise to fame. While the social network’s story isn’t as dramatic as Facebook’s history, the initial concept behind Twitter is very interesting. Twitter’s founder, Jack Dorsey, had a vested interested in Instant Messaging which soon led to the birth of Twitter in [...]
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The fail whale has been a mainstay on Twitter.com for the last hour (1:30pm Central). On their status log Twitter acknowledged that they are having system issues: “We are currently experiencing site stability issues. There may be intermittent issues loading twitter.com. We’re working to fix it as soon as possible.” While Twitter is valued as a [...]